Do you recall the NRA ploy after every mass shooting? "People have died, and people are grieving, and you are talking about gun control? You should be ashamed of yourself for bringing politics into this tragedy! THIS IS SIMPLY NOT THE TIME!"
Well, it seems it is equally bad taste to talk about global heating due to climate change when vast areas of Australia seem likely to be on fire for months to come, in an unprecedented national disaster:
The prime minister, Scott Morrison, whose conservative coalition government has been consistently criticised over its support for coalmining and power plants, inaction on climate change, and Australia’s rising carbon emissions, has refused to answers questions on climate change worsening fires.
His deputy prime minister, Michael McCormack, from the country-based Nationals party, said concerns over climate change while fires were burning were a “disgrace”.
“They don’t need the ravings of some pure, enlightened and woke capital city greenies at this time.”
But critics – some of whom had lost homes in the fires – argued the fires presented the reality of the impact of the climate crisis.
As Morrison visited a fire command site in northern NSW, a protester heckled: “Climate change is real. Can’t you see?” before he was escorted out of the building.
The opposition Labor party has also been condemned over its climate policies. In the wake of a general election defeat this year, it appears set to soften the 45% emissions reduction target that was party policy.
The opposition leader, Anthony Albanese, was confronted by by Ginger O’Brien, a resident of Nimbin, a famed counter-culture retreat on the north coast of NSW, who told him: “Shame on you.”
“Your house is not burning. My house is burning down,” an incensed O’Brien said. “What are you doing? Nothing. You’re laughing. You’re having a circus. You’re playing with fire.”
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
We have to keep out doors shut due to the smoke. The debate here has been over coal and how many coal power stations will close down. Solar and Gas and Hydro power seem to be taken on now. My bill arrived in my email box this morning with a $340.00 credit. So investing some money getting solar panels worked.My neighbor uses an inhaler often when talking with him. He has worked in the coal industry and has coal lung disease. We have been going through a national heat wave it seems to have got cooler this morning.It was predicted it might be worse later today. A fire broke out behind a supermarket and customers and staff evacuated. Also I wonder if you has ever seen the Jon Oliver youtube video on Australia's gun policy. I can go to McDonalds with my grand kids and the only people I see with a gun are he police who come to buy lunch.
Hilary Clinton " I won the places that represent two-thirds of America's GDP.I won in places are optimistic diverse, dynamic, moving forward"
Sorry you’re going through this. Smoke is nasty stuff.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951